The Somalis' style of play is very stupid, and it can be said that it is just right to restrain the Hummer convoy.
The Humvee gun turret only has bulletproof shields on four sides, and there is no defense above its head. The Somali militia can easily hit the machine gunner.
As a result, the Humvee convoy ran all the way down the street, and wounded machine gunners began to appear in large numbers.
Because there was a floor covering inside the house, the helicopter formation covering the Humvee convoy in the sky could not do anything to the Somalis hiding in the house.
If there are few people attacking the convoy, this method of sneak attack will not have much impact.
Driving at speeds exceeding 50 kilometers per hour, the convoy of Hummers that were running wildly through the city like a herd of mad cows could be shaken off in a matter of minutes.
It is difficult for militiamen who hide in a fixed location to make a sneak attack to cause continuous obstruction to the convoy.
Unless there are enough manpower to lay out a whole street, and the Humvee convoy rushes all the way, there will be people firing and sneak attacks along the way.
However.
Mogadishu lacks everything, but the most indispensable thing is people.
A large number of Somalis who were brainwashed by Aidid took cheap weapons and turned into armed militias, with only one goal in mind.
Kill an American soldier, even just wound him.
Under this "pure" fighting mentality, the Somali militiamen all over the city turned into "warriors" and thought of ways to sneak attack the Humvee convoy.
In addition to attacking with weapons, many people even threw improvised Molotov cocktails.
Put a bottle of gasoline in a glass bottle, plug a piece of cloth into the mouth of the bottle and light it. When you see the convoy of Hummers approaching in a hurry, throw it over.
As long as it can be thrown into a convoy of Humvees, it will burst into flames.
If it burns on the windshield, it will affect the Humvee's field of view, causing the team to have to reduce its driving speed to avoid hitting the wall.
If it were thrown into the gun tower from upstairs, the damage would be even more horrific.
The burning gasoline will stick to the machine gunner and burn him. The machine gunner will be completely panicked under the severe pain and retreat into the carriage, causing chaos in the carriage.
There is not much room in the Hummer compartment, but there is an extra burning person.
Only when others are calm can there be ghosts.
Even if there is a fire extinguisher inside the carriage, the burning machine gunner can be put out quickly, but the fire has already started in the gun tower outside, and it is impossible to show your head to put it out.
The only way is to close the top cover and let it burn, and then go back up to control the heavy machine gun after it's done burning.
There's only so much gasoline in a bottle, and it won't burn for long.
But during the period of time it burns, the Hummer loses its ability to fight back and turns into a passively beaten turtle shell.
As the attack on the Humvee convoy weakens, the Somali militia's offensive will become more intense. Then more Humvees will be attacked, resulting in more machine gunners being injured and sacrificed.
One after another, it becomes a vicious circle.
It's okay if the battle is short, the Rangers on the Humvee can get through it with a little support.
It will get very bad over time.
Normally.
The Humvee convoy has command helicopter navigation, so even if the main road is blocked, it can quickly reach the crash site through various small alleys.
Even if Aidid's militiamen moved to the front to set up a jam, it would be useless.
After all, it takes a long time to block a road. By the time they set up a roadblock, the Hummer convoy would have already rushed over.
The Somali militias also realized this and started burning tires all over the city, blocking the sky with smoke.
And this is just one of the appetizers. Valley
The Somalis, who are usually called idiots and stupid pigs, also prepared a big dish for the Hummer convoy.
He used a very cunning and even completely inhumane method, but in this situation, it was the most effective method to stop the Humvee from moving forward.
The longer the Humvee convoy stays in the city, the more time the Somalis have to attack.
The specialty of the Somalis is to use Somali civilians in the city as human bunkers to cause big trouble for the Humvee convoy.
When roadblocks could not be built quickly, all the Somali civilians in the surrounding buildings were "caught out" and asked to stand in the middle of the road to block the road.
The armor of the Humvee convoy is indeed thick enough, and it can indeed be hit by a kick of the accelerator.
But as peacekeepers, they can't do this.
If he really hit and killed dozens of Somali civilians blocking the road in order to pass through a road, the media around the world would explode the next day.
Peacekeepers who come out as soldiers of justice will become infamous all over the world for their massacres.
Even if he could make it out of Moshadiga alive, he would definitely be sent to a military court.
Lieutenant Colonel McKnight could not order to rush into the crowd. He could only turn to the left and right paths or alleys when the road was blocked.
Then communicate with the C2 command helicopter to re-establish a new route.
This kind of temporary route change is very troublesome.
The reconnaissance aircraft in the sky do not have a very good camera view due to smoke obstruction. After image analysts and intelligence analysts receive the surveillance footage, it takes a certain amount of time to analyze each road on the screen to find a feasible discovery.
route.
Wait for the analyst to send the new navigation route to Matthews and forward it to the Hummer team.
Because the Humvee convoy cannot stop, it must maintain high maneuverability to avoid being blocked by the Somali militia. There is a time difference.
Due to information delay, the new navigation route is still unable to accurately provide the route, and the navigation can only be requested again.
This back and forth is another vicious cycle.
Even if the navigation route is correct, if the Humvee convoy drives forward one or two streets, it will soon find that the unaccounted street ahead is blocked by Somali civilians.
In order to avoid colliding with Somali civilians, the Humvee convoy had to make an emergency turn.
This is how the third vicious cycle was born.
The distance was only 500 linear meters. After running wildly for 10 minutes, the Hummer convoy was still running around the streets in the city.
During these 10 minutes of running wildly, the Hummer convoy suffered an unimaginable terrorist attack.
Armed trucks, because of their bulky and large size, became the primary target of attacks during the Mosadiga long-distance race. One of the trucks was hit by a rocket in its tires, separated from the convoy and crashed into a nearby house.
When Lieutenant Colonel McKnight received the report, he took the Humvee convoy in a circle with a sweet smell, and returned to the scene of the incident to save people.
It was found that the truck with 150 mm bulletproof steel plate had been shattered into pieces by rockets one after another.
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Except for one armed truck that was completely scrapped, none of the other eight vehicles were intact, and each one was completely changed beyond recognition.
The lighter one's body was covered with various craters, and was burned black by simple incendiary bombs.
The heavier one was hit by a rocket. Fortunately, the engine was not blown out, but the hit part of the car body was severely deformed.
Others, such as the windshield being covered with spider veins, have become the norm in the Hummer fleet.
Not to mention the wounded in the carriage, there were more than 40 Rangers at the time of departure, but now only less than 20 are still intact.
Mogadishu, which has become completely violent, is a living hell for the Hummer fleet.
However, the Hummer convoy was like running into a wall and kept circling in the city, unable to get out. This was not the worst situation.